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First lines: "Readers of this page may remember in this column, a long and enthusiastic review of The Seven Storey"... Citation: News Sentinel Knoxville, TN (6 February 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book will be on a religious theme, the life of the fourteenth century"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (23 January 1950).

First lines: "The Carthusians, the most intransigent of the many monastic order, have, says Thomas Merton, "an"... Citation: Saturday Review 40 (18 May 1957): 39. John LaFarge, SJ.

First lines: "An exposition of the Eucharist in accordance with the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church." Citation: Tribune Oakland, CA (4 March 1956).

First lines: "this rarely told story of the monastic life is a simply written explanation of monasticism, its"... Citation: Herald Tribune New York City (13 January 1957).

First lines: "Since the appearance, some twelve years ago, of his Elected Silence, Thomas Merton has established"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] (3 August 1962): 561.

First lines: "I find it refreshing, when reading this roughcut gem of a book, to find that back in the late"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:2 (Summer 1997): 27-28.

First lines: "The world which Merton presents is a gloomy one. If God is not dead many, and Christians among them,"... Citation: Month [London] 36 (December 1966):343. Quentin De La Bedoyere.

First lines: "I was deeply moved by reading this scholarly publication edited by F. Douglas Scutchfield and"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 40.2 (Summer 2015): 25-27.

First lines: "There is an attempt these days to read Merton's writings in the context and chronology of his life's"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 20:3 (Summer 1995): 18-19.

First lines: "Kwestia pokoju stanowi istotny element mysli spolecznej Kosciola." Citation: Tarnowskie Studia Teologiczne 26.2 (2007): 153-154.

First lines: "One of the dominant themes in Thomas Merton's later works"... Citation: The Lamp (May 1971): 30-31.

First lines: "The conversion of Thomas Merton to Roman Catholicism and his subsequent monastic career represent"... Citation: Liturgical Arts 39 (August 1971): 113, 115-116. Aaron W. Godfrey.

First lines: "The complexity and ambiguity of contemporary life have put a tremendous strain on our perspective." Citation: Liturgical Arts 35 (May 1967): 130. Aaron W. Godfrey.

First lines: "Shortly before Thomas Merton left on his Asian journey in 1968, his friend Edward Rice photographed"... Citation: Renascence 34.2 (Winter 1982): 113-128.

First lines: "These are the first two of what will surely be a banquet of books to publicly witness"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter [Kansas City, MO] 7 (19 February 1971): 11.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book is ominously entitled"...

First lines: "What was it like to be in one of Thomas Merton’s classes? With the publication of Merton’s"... Citation: The Merton Seasonal 41.3 (Fall 2016): 39-41.

First lines: "It should be said at once that this is a very different book from the author's overwhelming success"... Citation: Traveler Boston, Mass. (31 October 1951). F.J.L.

First lines: "Almost simultaneously, two new yet dissimilar books have been ushered out of the Kentucky woods by"... Citation: Critic 25 (April-May 1967): 70-72. James Forest.

First lines: "Almost simultaneously, two new yet dissimilar books have been ushered out of the Kentucky woods by"... Citation: Critic 25 (April May 1967): 70-72. James H. Forest.

First lines: "After his disappointing Seasons of Celebration Fr. Merton seems to be hitting his stride again in"... Citation: Christian Century 83 (10 August 1966): 990.

First lines: "The Trappist monk whose autobiography, "the Seven Storey Mountain," received widespread attention"... Citation: Tribune Chicago, IL (27 March 1949). Edward Barry.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest book, Seeds of Destruction, is a disappointing work, a condition for which"... Citation: Saturday Review 28 (6 February 1965): 39. John M. Pratt.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who is Father Louis in the Cistercian Order at the Abbey of Gethsemani, made a"... Citation: Star Fort Worth TX (19 June 1955). Harold Monroe.

First lines: "Although mules are said to have only an academic interest in posterity, David Stern apparently"... Citation: New York Times.

First lines: "From the earliest times the psalms have been the official prayer of the Church, the prayer par excellence"... Citation: Tablet [London] (7 August 1954): 15s.

First lines: "Is modern man in America likely to be too conformist? Is his inclination toward passivity? Does our"... Citation: Worcester Telegram, Mass (5 February 1961). Frederick L. Rushton. 2 copies.

First lines: "The Thomas Merton revealed in these journals is the quintessentially restless American, ever"... Citation: Christian Century 113.18 (22-29 May 1996): 570-571. Anne E. Carr.

First lines: "The Thomas Merton revealed in these journals is the quintessentially restless American, ever"... Citation: Christian Century 113.18 (22-29 May 1996): 570-571. Anne Carr.

First lines: "The Thomas Merton revealed in these journals is the quintessentially restless American, ever"... Citation: Christian Century 113.18 (22-29 May 1996): 570-573. Anne Carr.

First lines: "Here are brief but poignant snatches of the words and wisdom of Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, priest"... Citation: News & Leader Springfield MO (2 August 1970).

First lines: "Father Merton, author of "Seven Storey Mountain," has written another book which pursues somewhat"... Citation: Ft. Worth Star (6 November 1960). Charles Mulholland.

First lines: "Thomas Merton in his early twenties before"... Citation: Durham Morning Herald (July 20, 1969).

First lines: "Thomas Merton died on December 10, 1968. His influence, however, continues to grow. The Monastic"... Citation: Reporter Toronto (1977): 47-48. Michael W. Higgins.

First lines: "Undoubtedly the most famous monk in America is Thomas Merton (Father M. Louis) of the Trappist"... Citation: Newsweek 53 (16 February 1959): 106.

First lines: "George E. Thompson, in a sermon published in the November/December 1988 issue of Pulpit"... Citation: Pulpit Digest 69.1 (October 1989): 77-78.

First lines: "W dyskusjach wokol duchowosci chrzescijanskiej nie od dzis"... Citation: Znak 57.7-8 (July-August 2005): 147-52.

First lines: "'It is a spiritual disaster for a man to rest content with his exterior identity, with his passport"... Citation: Courier-Journal [Louisville] (7 January 1962). William Habich.

First lines: "the Two principal ingredients in Thomas Merton's latest effort are the race issue and the war-peace"... Citation: Critic 23 (February-March 1965): 87. Terry F. Brock.

First lines: "Usually it is a disservice to a writer's memory to publish his early unsold manuscripts. It does not"... Citation: Evening News Buffalo NY (26 July 1969). Charles A. Brady.

First lines: "The cult of Thomas Merton continues to grow, even now, 35 years after his death from a bathtub accident"... Citation: National Catholic Reporter 39.43 (10 October 2003): 4a-5a.

First lines: "The story of people finishing the last page of Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain and hopping"... Citation: Telegram Worcester, MA (6 January 1957). Frederick L. Rushton.

First lines: "Among these three volumes are to be found at least the theoretic poles of much contemporary poetry." Citation: Catholic Library World 40 (September 1968): 86.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's latest volume"... Citation: The Pilot Boston Mass 120 (17 December 1949): 16.

First lines: "There is some sentry at the rim of winter / Fed with the speech the wind makes / In the grand"... Citation: NY Times (20 October 1946).

First lines: "The Trappists and their life are becoming quite prominent on the American scene. Their latest move"... Citation: America (13 November 1948).

First lines: "Freshness is the distinguishing note of Thomas Merton's poetry, though much of it is what Mr. Speaight calls"... Citation: Tablet [London] (12 January 1951): 10.

First lines: "Poetry is the only real way to mediate the functional supernatural, the auguries of this Janus month"... Citation: Buffalo Evening News (1 January 1978). Charles A. Brady.

First lines: "It is supposed that there is a great, tired, thick-headed public indifference to poetry, and that we"... Citation: Sewanee Review 56.4 (Autumn 1948): 685-697. Robert Fitzgerald.

First lines: "There is justness as well as wit in Mr. Allan M. Laing's New Statesman epigram (22nd April, 1950)--"... Citation: Month [London] 5 (April 1951): 247-249.

First lines: "There is justness as well as wit in Mr. Allan M. Laing's "New Statesman" epigram (22nd April, 1950)"... Citation: Month [London] 5 (April 1951): 247-248. D.J. Enright.

First lines: "the thing, an idolator of finely crafted instruments; the sardonic culture-iconoclast (the Auden"... Citation: Poetry 114 (April 1969): 40-58. Laurence Lieberman.

First lines: "Merton's poems, covering a wide range of social and religious issues, illustrate his humanistic and"... Citation: Library Journal 103 (15 March 1978): 668. Carolyn M. Craft.

First lines: "The Tears of the Blind Lion by Thomas Merton (New Directions. $.50) is the third book of poems from"... Citation: America (13 May 1950).

First lines: "Out of the quiet of a Trappist monastery has come one of the most authoritative poetic voices of our"... Citation: America (26 April 1947): xxvi-xxviii. William A. Donaghy.

First lines: "This is rich fare, profuse, engaging, sometimes puzzling, more often absorbing, the entire poetic"... Citation: Best Sellers 37 (March 1978): 395. Robert O'Donnell SJ.

First lines: "This book, which has earned the praises of Evelyn Waugh, Clare Booth Luce, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen"... Citation: Courant Hartford Conn (2 January 1949). Daniel E. Ahearne.

First lines: "It is an extremely unpleasant task for anyone as enthusiastic as this reviewer about the Cistercian"... Citation: Brooklyn Eagle (24 August 1948). Gerard M. Murray.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the poet and Trappist monk whose autobiography, "Seven Storey Mountain," is now near"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (2 February 1949).

First lines: "According to Thomas Merton's introductory note,"... Citation: Miami Herald (January 18, 1970).

First lines: "Readers who have followed the literary career of Thomas Merton, meteoric since "The Seven Storey"... Citation: Tennessean Nashville. C.V.

First lines: "Zostawil ponad dziesiec tysiecy listow." Citation: Tygodnik Powszeclmy/Ksiazki w Tygodniku 49 (4 December 2011): 10.

First lines: "This book, intended for publication in 1962, is now published for the first time." Citation: Church Times 74.23 (17 June 2005): 24.

First lines: "Thomas Merton--Father Louis of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance--has written "Seeds"... Citation: New York Times (6 November 1954).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $3) is a small book comprising"... Citation: Catholic Transcript Hartford, Conn (22 May 1958).

First lines: "The contemporary spate of "spirituality" books which continue the vogue in booktrade houses seems"... Citation: Commonweal 110 (18 November 1983): 634-637.

First lines: "The bristling Latin quotations, references to the Church Scriptures give the pages of this book a"... Citation: Times Herald Dallas, TX (20 January 1957). C.

First lines: "In "The Seven Storey Mountain" Merton told of his religious and intellectual pilgrimage which led"... Citation: Times Dispatch Richmond, VA. Tracy Early.

First lines: "Esteemed Merton scholars Christine M. Bochen and Williams H. Shannon have again brought"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 34:1 (Spring 2009): 29-32.

First lines: "Father Merton draws largely upon liturgical texts and upon the writings of the Fathers to help in"... Citation: Catholic Standard & Times Philadelphia PA (2 March 1956).

First lines: "The current interest in Oriental thought together with the impact of the Zen mondo, possessing as"... Citation: Renascence 14 (Summer 1962): 218-222. Therese Lentofoehr SDS.

First lines: "The current interest in Oriental though together with the impact of the Zen mondo, possessing as"... Citation: Renascence 14 (Summer 1962): 218-222. Sister M. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.

First lines: "Hallmark does a beautiful job with small books of the inspirational type. In keeping with past"... Citation: World Herald Omaha Neb (5 July 1970). Betty Stevens.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's last manuscript was an acocunt of a 1968 journey through"... Citation: Los Angeles Times (July 17 1983):1.

First lines: "I have been told that all of our history is written on the "walls" inside us--our upbringing and"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 21:1 (Spring 1996): 23-25.

First lines: "'All reality,' Sir Rabindranath Tagore declared, 'is relationship,' and that, according to"... Citation: Reporter (21 September 1967): 50. Anne Fremantle.

First lines: "Most men and most ages of men have their "dogmas" by which they live and think, their cache of"... Citation: Christian Century 87 (4 February 1970): 145. Robert E. Meagher.

First lines: "The recent numerous reprints and translations of articles by Thomas Merton in such foreign"... Citation: Renascence 15 (Fall 1962): 46-50. Sister M. Therese Lentfoehr, SDS.

First lines: "The recent numerous reprints and translations of articles by Thomas Merton in such foreign"... Citation: Renascence 15 (Fall 1962): 46-50. Therese Lentfoehr SDS.

First lines: "The recent numerous reprints and translations of articles by Thomas Merton"... Citation: Renascence 15 (Fall 1962): 46-50.

First lines: "In a neat brown volume illustrated with photographs of monks and hermits at their labors or"... Citation: Times Dispatch Richmond, VA (17 February 1957). Louise C. Frayser.

First lines: "This volume presumes an older one of Selected Poems, which was published by New directions in 1959"... Citation: America 192.16 (9 May 2005): 22-23.

First lines: "Those of us who knew Thomas Merton realized that he was never particularly at home in the realm of"... Citation: Worship 46 (January 1972): 56-57. Richard [Columban] Weber OCSO.

First lines: "Unfortunately, Life and Holiness is not a book that is likely to impress the audience for whom it"... Citation: Commonweal 78 (19 April 1963): 112-113.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, poet, Catholic convert and Trappist monk, at 33 has written his autobiography, a"... Citation: Chicago Sun [Chicago, IL] (28 December 1948). James O. supple.

First lines: "As soon as you begin to take yourself seriously and imagine that your virtues are important because"... Citation: New York Times (1 May 1949).

First lines: "Mr. Evelyn Waugh tells us in a prefatory"... Citation: Times Literary Supplement [London] (29 July 1949): 491.

First lines: "Here is a book that every thoughtful Protestant should read, not merely for the knowledge of Roman"... Citation: Times Roanoke VA (19 November 1967). J.J. Murray.

First lines: "Poetry is being written among us as never before, and of a high degree of refinement and"... Citation: Spirit 24 (July 1957): 85-87. Thomas P. McDonnell.

First lines: "It seems odd that people should be writing the story of their lives while still in their teens and"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (24 October 1948). George Shuster.

First lines: "At Thomas Merton's funeral last December a Methodist woman managed to take Holy Communion five times"... Citation: Washington Post Book World (6 July 1969): 7. Guy Davenport.

First lines: "Thomas Merton always seems to be in the news." Citation: Catholic Register (30 October 2005): 16.

First lines: "Those who have turned Thomas Merton into an icon or plaster saint in overalls would do well to give"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 22:4 (Winter 1997): 31-34.

First lines: "When a man of some mental stature enters the Church, human curiosity sometimes moves toward specula"... Citation: Carroll Quarterly 1 (Spring 1948): 4-13. Frank J. Wiess.

First lines: "'In the month of June, when the sun burns high in the bright firmament and when Cistercian monks"... Citation: Newsweek.

First lines: "When Harcourt Brace reissued four months ago Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain in a 50th"... Citation: America 180.5 (20 February 1999): 2. Patrick H. Samway SJ.

First lines: "In Dante's "Paradiso" it is Bernard of Clairvaux who is deemed worthy to serve as guide to the"... Citation: Saturday Review 32 (17 September 1949): 20-21. Ann F. Wolfe.

First lines: "Only because Merton generated such a large following in the 20 years since his death is it possible"... Citation: Georgia Bulletin (24 August 1989): 10. Victor A. Kramer.